RM Cobol Data Extraction Program.
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I had a need to extract the data from an RM-COBOL system that I was converting. I found some documentation of the file layout on wotsits format ( http://www.wotsit.org/ ). The documentation is a bit vague about some aspects of the data file.

This program will extract all the data from a rm-cobol database file.

The file is split up into several blocks, there are key blocks, data blocks and empty blocks.

The program will get all data from the data blocks, uncompress it and output it as a flat format file.

It does the job I intended it to do, but it is very basic. There is hardly any error checking, and some of the code is a bit strange.

Feel free to make improvements if you so desire.

It was written with Delphi 4 professional, so has not been tested on any other version of Delphi. You will get errors loading the project in earlier version of delphi, just ignore them and re-save the project.

matthew@janes.demon.co.uk

http://www.janes.demon.co.uk/